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Andrew Smith

Professional Summary

Highly-motivated focused professional with more than 15 years of experience as a Quality Manager, QA and QC Supervisor, NDT Technician Level II and Internal Auditor.  Consistently participates in continuous improvement initiatives.  Strong technicals skills with keen ability to multi-task in a  results-driven environment.

Education

Eastern Florida Institute, Adamschester, New Mexico
Associate of Science, Productivity, Jul. 1992

Employment history

Welding Supervisor, Bradtke and Sons. Jenevaside, Alabama
  •  Coordinate the activities of welders engaged in repairing parts of the ship and new welds at shop. (FCAW and SAW processes).

NDT Technician (PT & VT LII), Kub-Waelchi. Towneberg, Oregon
Feb. 2019 – Apr. 2019
  • Inspect materials and welds with VT and PT as a Level II  during and after construction for structural quality,  conformance to specifications and codes. 

Quality Manager, Lakin Inc. Fletcherberg, Arkansas
Feb. 2016 – Sep. 2016
  • Direct or coordinate activities of  technical personnel involved in fabricating, modifying, or testing of structural quality for several projects.

Welding Supervisor, Kovacek and Sons. Rauport, Iowa
Jan. 2015 – Jul. 2015
  • Supervise, Inspect, and test field welds, to ensure meet specifications (WPS), tolerances, and customer order requirements. GTAW and SMAW processes.

Internal Auditor & QA supervisor, Stanton Group. North Gwyneth, Utah
Aug. 2009 – May. 2012
  • Supervise and Inspect materials, products, equipment and services to detect defects or malfunctions (NCR) at Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station.

NDT Technician (MT & UT LII), Borer and Sons. Boganmouth, Pennsylvania
Nov. 2000 – Mar. 2001
 MT and UT on line inspection at oil well piping, as per API & ASNT Standards 

Quality Control Manager, Miller LLC. South Nicolasfurt, Alabama
Oct. 1998 – May. 1999
 
  • Direct or coordinate activities of  inspection department and staff, to assure structural quality for railcar fleet at GATX Tierra Blanca Service Center. 

QC Supervisor, Bartell LLC. Port Patsy, Arkansas
Sep. 1990 – Nov. 1993
  • Supervise, Inspect and test  oil well piping manufactured by TAMSA, meeting specifications, tolerances, and customer order requirements.

Personal info


Phone:

(000) 000-0000

Email:

andrew_smith@example.com

Address:

287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000

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Andrew Smith

287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000
andrew_smith@example.com
(000) 000-0000

Professional Summary

Highly-motivated focused professional with 15 years of experience as an assembly manufacturing and production welder/fabricator.  Adept at identifying and implementing shop floor process optimization and control methods to eliminate turn-backs to reduce overall assembly costs.  Consistently participates in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.  Strong project   planning skills with keen ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.

Employment history

Farmer, Wyman and Sons. Lake Hildeport, Mississippi
Jun. 1994 – Present
  • Change processes such as drying, grading, storing, or shipping to improve efficiency or profitability.
  • Inspect farm or ranch equipment to ensure proper functioning.
  • Monitor activities such as irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, milking, breeding, or grading to ensure adherence to safety regulations or standards.
  • Demonstrate or explain working techniques, practices, or safety regulations to farm or ranch workers.
  • Direct crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, or harvesting.
  • Inspect farm or ranch structures, such as buildings, fences, or roads, ordering repair or maintenance activities, as needed.
  • Plan crop activities based on factors such as crop maturity or weather conditions.
  • Supervise the construction of farm or ranch structures, such as buildings, fences, drainage systems, wells, or roads.
  • Inspect farm or ranch equipment to ensure proper functioning.
  • Direct crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, or harvesting.

welding supervisor, Heidenreich-Towne. Croninland, New Hampshire
Nov. 2017 – Present
  • Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
  • Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators.
  • Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
  • Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
  • Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
  • Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
  • Keep records of employees’ attendance and hours worked.
  • Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
  • Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.

welder/fabricator trailer restoration, Frami-Borer. Williamsonville, Mississippi
Mar. 2020 – Present
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
  • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
  • Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
  • Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
  • Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  • Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
  • Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.
  • Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
  • Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
  • Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
  • Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.

Shop Assistant, Larkin LLC. Prosaccohaven, Alaska
Jun. 2012 – Aug. 2012
  • Shop assistant for western Iowa Tech community college welding dept.
  • duties included monitoring students in the shop and helping them develop there welding techniques, also taught them how to set up their welding machine, and how to operate tourch and plasma cutters.

welder/fabricator, Schimmel Inc. Macejkovicchester, Maryland
May. 2011 – Jun. 2011
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
  • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
  • Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
  • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
  • Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  • Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
  • Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.

welder/fabricator, Schinner-Fay. North Alexandraberg, Connecticut
Dec. 2006 – Oct. 2008
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
  • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
  • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
  • Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
  • Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
  • Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  • Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
  • Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
  • Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
  • Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.

Body Man, Denesik-Nitzsche. Joieport, Rhode Island
May. 2004 – Nov. 2004
  • Examine vehicles, compile estimates of repair costs, and secure customers’ approval to perform repairs.
  • Remove seats, carpeting, and interiors of doors; add sound-absorbing material in empty spaces; and reinstall interior parts.
  • Did all the necessary body work, Fiberglass work, and some mechanical work depending on how bad the truck was wrecked.
  • Replace and clean electrical or electronic components.
  • Cut openings and drill holes for fixtures and equipment, using electric drills and routers.

Education

East Mertz, Haleymouth, Washington
auto Body technician, Auto Body Repair, Mar. 2004

North Moen, McKenzieborough, Arizona
High School Diploma, Aug. 2000

Skills

employee management
Experienced

welding
Expert

inventory management
Skillful

people skills
Experienced

excel/microsoft office
Beginner

run many types of machinery/fast learner
Experienced

welding supervisor

  • Supervise, Inspect, and test field welds, to ensure meet specifications (WPS), tolerances, and customer order requirements. GTAW and SMAW processes.